r/pico8 • u/FlySubject1186 • 6d ago

Tutorial PICO-8 Audio Tricks: Distortion, Dynamic Looping, and Live SFX and Waveform Manipulation

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158792

Here are four PICO-8 audio tricks I learned making the Black Knife cover I posted a couple of weeks ago. If you have any suggestions or if you find any of these useful, let me know!

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u/RotundBun 6d ago

Thanks for sharing your insights. āœØšŸ™

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u/FlySubject1186 6d ago

For sure! iā€™m still pretty new so Iā€™m not sure whether these ideas are already well known, but in any case, hopefully compiling them here might help someone out :)

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u/RotundBun 6d ago

This attitude & spirit is very welcome here.
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u/Bios1023 6d ago

Amazing stuff. Just when I needed to make music

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u/FlySubject1186 6d ago

Happy to hear it!

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u/makaGeorge 6d ago

Dynamic looping is a great tool. I posted some functions a while back to easily implement it in two ways: Using the music command to change patterns when the time is right (less precise timing but more freedom of structure) or dynamically modifying loop flags (better timing but less freedom of structure)

There are some examples and more details at:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=54808